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| Thread ID: 135705 | 2013-12-03 02:08:00 | Installing Windows 8 on a MBR partition | mookster1 (15854) | Press F1 |
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| 1361543 | 2013-12-03 02:08:00 | Hey guys I'm currently thinking of installing Xubuntu 13.10 alongside my current installation of Windows 8 on my laptop (a Samsung NP350V5C-S08AU.) Due to a well-publicised firmware bug which could potentially cause me to brick my motherboard (see here (www.pcworld.com)), and the fact that Samsung have been next to useless in releasing information about which laptops are affected by the issue (or indeed if it's been fixed yet!), I am not very keen on installing Linux on my GPT-partitioned hard disk. As I can't install an OS in legacy mode alongside one booting in UEFI mode, my plan of attack so far is to back up my Windows partition, reformat and repartition the drive so it uses a master boot record instead, putting the Windows image back on the drive, then (if all has gone well by that point) installing Linux. No installation media came with my laptop, so as far as I'm aware this is the only method that I'm able to use to get Windows 8 back on here, while also allowing me to install Linux. Unfortunately I'm still too reliant on Windows to ditch it entirely, otherwise I would (quite happily!) and save a lot of time. Does anyone know if this will work? I don't want to break things (too much) so any help would be greatly appreciated :) |
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| 1361544 | 2013-12-04 09:36:00 | Could you add the Hyper-V feature in the control panel to your machine and install Ubuntu into a VM? | nmercer (3899) | ||
| 1361545 | 2013-12-06 01:26:00 | I could do that (I've got Virtualbox with an Ubuntu VM) but I'd eventually like to ditch Windows 8 entirely. I just don't want to do so at this stage, so I'd preferably like to dualboot them first to verify that everything works properly, then get rid of Windows 8. | mookster1 (15854) | ||
| 1361546 | 2013-12-06 03:11:00 | I guess you've seen this page: help.ubuntu.com These pages on the Kubuntu forum may be helpful too: www.kubuntuforums.net More specifically on the Samsung issue: www.kubuntuforums.net |
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